Hey Little Buddy

SweetFeet

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Hey, Little Buddy... can I help you?
(That's what this photo made me think of. Snapped it today while my husband was out just beginning to scour the old rusty plow and our renter drove his big modern JD combine over by our little, old F20 to talk to him for a minute).

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Second pic is two guys who are OUTSTANDING IN THEIR FIELD... husband and and renter. :)

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Well, there are a lot of them... but still some spaces in-between for a little farming. (Actually more lakes in the northern half of MN.)
 
Very nice pictures !

Like the "old and the new".

I grew up on a Regular and worked at Case/IH Dealership until I retired last year so had a lot of contact with those big combines.

Bill
 
Sweetfeet, Like Bill said comparing the old and the new look how far we come in less than 100 years. Did the renter want to take over plowing with all the comforts that the F20 has padded seat and Armstrong power steering? Greg
 
BillOHIO,

Thanks!

Wish we could have plowed with our rusty Regular today - but it's been winterized already.

Can't imagine working on those gigantic machines!
 
gregoliver,

I kind of think he was content to climb back into his combine.

I often powder just how wildly life has changed from our grandparents generation to our generation. It's pretty amazing (yet maybe kind of scary).
 
Great pics! Ya know that there combine has a buddy seat, you could have rode a round and got some more cool pics. Thanks for posting
 
A ride in that big beast picking corn would be fun!! Should have asked him if I could ride a round.

I'm sure it's way different than our little old JD combine - that thing was noisy and dirty and a lot of vibration. No place to sit either... when my husband still farmed, I just stood in the corner when I rode along.
 
Thanks, Larry.

Was another beautiful fall day again... a little windy, but pretty nice overall.
 
Kewl Pictures Sweetfeet!
Yer husband going to have all the plowing done before the snow flies?
 
Thanks, Kruser!

I think he will get 'er done!

Renter is going to leave him about 10 acres to plow - the rest will get ripped as soon as they get the corn off (probably only take 'em a few hours to do the whole darn farm).
 
I bet so too.

Husband has owned that tractor for 40 years now. He bought it from his grandma when he was a teenager, (after his grandpa passed). I'm pretty sure he gave $50 for it, as people were not really that into the collecting phase back then.
 
"The Old and the New", "Now and Then", Today and Yesterday", etc. etc. Good looking field of corn, how many acres does it cover?
 
Shadetree,

Kind of like one of those big front-loading washers setting next to a little wringer-washer like grandma had. The cornfield is only a little over seventy acres.
 
I should have taken a picture of my Farmall H and Oliver #5 picker parked next to my neighbor's 96 something Deere combine Sunday. I was moving the picker and stopped to talk. He climbed down and said "thank God you got here to help". The size difference is the most amazing thing about comparing old and new. My old 510 Massey (a giant in its day) would fit inside a modern combine.
 
+1 on he might get the 10 acres done by winter.

That's the thing that turned me against moldboards; 1 or 2 or if you are lucky enough for a larger tractor maybe you can work yourself up to the same width as the tractor's tire spacing. Course when you have to turn it over that's a hard implement design to beat.

Remembering the Ford spec for the N tractors was that they had to pull a double bottom but don't remember how big....14" 16"?

At first I thought I remembered you were in E. TX. but I never saw land like that in E. TX. Then I remembered (I think) you were in OK., SW I think which made more sense. As I said before, when I was 20 I was stationed in Altus and for something to do in my off time I worked at the grain elevator and unloaded boxcars of wheat.....by hand.

Nice pics,
Mark
 
Texasmark1,

The plow is an IHC Little Genius, 2-14's. It's what our F20 and Regular are rated to pull. Just bought the rusty plow this summer and getting it scoured for the first time in a LONG time. She didn't really want to plow much for a few rounds. :)

We're a little farther north. Reside in the land of youbetcha, yahsure, and don'tchaknow (MN)... LOL.
 

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